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With a date stamped inside the inlay

Polish pressed music cassette. Clear Euro Star cassette with green text. With bonus track Troops Of Doom

Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. A label based in the East-Central Polish city Legionowo actually managed to make it rather big. The company was Euro Star and they started their activity in the early 90s in Poland. Around the same time, Euro Star products began to fill the Ukrainian market and by the mid-90s became the main supplier of cassette products. Probably everyone in Ukraine who bought cassettes at that time had products of this company in their collection. At the start the Ukrainan tapes were imported from Poland but over time they began to press them in Ukraine. When the Polish Parliament passed on a new copyright law in May of 1994 most Polish cassette labels disappeared but Euro Star became a cassette manufacturer for external recording companies. Around 1996/1997 the sublabel Kyiv-Eurostar started, which was a joint Polish-Ukrainian Enterprise based in Kyiv. Since 1998, Ukrainian text was printed on the inside of the cover. Euro Star also had office in Lithuania (their cartalouge numbers begins with ESMC-xxx), Albania and Russia. They also released tapes under the sublabels CD Club, Euro Sonic Production and Super Tape (catalouge ST-xxx). More than five thousand tapes was released in Poland and about two thousand tapes in Russia.

Brazilian death metal upstart Sepultura took an incredible leap forward with their second full-length album, 1987’s Schizophrenia. Though recorded only a year after the band’s primitive debut, Schizophrenia displayed a remarkable sonic evolution in both technical and creative terms. Constant touring, rehearsal, and the addition of new lead guitarist Andreas Kisser obviously helped the band achieve the musical proficiency necessary to pull off its complex songs. This is apparent as soon as the Psycho-inspired intro theme gives way to the precise, lightning-quick staccato riffing of “From the Past Comes the Storm.” But Sepultura immediately raises the stakes with the excellent riffs and precise soloing on “To the Wall” and “Escape From the Void.” The seven-minute instrumental “Inquisition Symphony” is simply breathtaking in its diversity, perfectly showcasing the band’s incredible combination of melody and aggression. The re-recorded version of the group’s early hit “Troops of Doom” makes this album even more collectible, and helps set the stage for the band’s subsequent breakthrough release, Beneath The Remains.

Track listing:
1. Intro
2. From The Past Comes The Storms
3. To The Wall
4. Escape From The Void
5. Screams Behind The Shadows
6. Inquisition Symphony
7. Septic Schizo
8. The Abyss
9. RIP (Rest In Peace)
10. Troops Of Doom